Port Vale: Manager Micky Adams still awaiting new contract offer

Port Vale boss Micky Adams says that he has not yet been offered a new contract by the League One club, even though his current deal expires in June.

The 52-year-old Yorkshireman's future at Vale Park has become a source of major speculation among fans worried that they might lose him.

Micky Adams in management

Aug 1996-Sept 1997: Fulham (player-manager) (won promotion)

Oct 1997: Swansea City (caretaker player-manager)

Nov 1997-July 98: Brentford (player-manager)

Jan 1999: Nottingham Forest (caretaker manager)

Apr 1999-Oct 2001: Brighton (won promotion)

Apr 2002-Oct 2004: Leicester City (won promotion)

Jan 2005- Jan 07: Coventry City

May 2008-Feb 2009: Brighton

June 2009-Dec 2010: Port Vale

Dec 2010-Feb 2011: Sheffield United

May 2011-present: Port Vale (won promotion)

"Because people put deadlines on you and they want answers, it will continue to grow," he told BBC Radio Stoke.

"But I have not seen a contract. That situation has not changed."

The much-travelled Adams, who turned out for Gillingham, Coventry City, Leeds United, Southampton, Stoke City , Fulham, Swansea City and Brentford as a player, has continued to clock up the miles in his 18 years as a manager.

After being used as player-manager at Fulham, Swansea and Brentford, followed by a short spell as caretaker manager of Nottingham Forest, he has since managed Brighton (twice), Leicester City, Coventry City, Vale (twice) and Sheffield United.

And, when he led Vale back to League One in May, two years after returning for his second spell, it was the fourth time he had built a promotion-winning team, this one perhaps the most impressive achievement, in a season when the club were undergoing a takeover,

Adams' current deal, along with 14 of his players, is due to run out in June, five years after he first came to Burslem.